Schlossmann

Schlossmann Arthur (Arthur Schlossmann, 1867-1932), outstanding German pediatrician and social hygienist; studied in Freiburg, Breslau, Leipzig, and Munich. Worked as an assistant in Berlin, then in Dresden and Düsseldorf. In Dresden, he created a children's polyclinic and the first stationary facility for young children (1897), which served as a model for institutions of this type. Simultaneously, he worked on the chemistry of children's nutrition and in 1899 defended his dissertation on physiological chemistry. In 1906, he received the chair of children's diseases at the newly founded Academy of Practical Medicine in Düsseldorf, where he worked until the end of his life. He had exceptional influence on the life of this city as a broadly educated innovative physician, talented organizer of healthcare, and public figure. The center of his work was the study of the infant and care for him in the broad sense of the word. Schlossmann early understood the importance of broad prevention, hygiene, and fresh air in the struggle for children's lives, and as early as his work on rickets (1891) emphasized the importance of social and constitutional factors. In 1926, he organized an exhibition on hygiene, physical education, and social hygiene (Gesolei), and at the end of his life - a State museum of social and economic management. He left more than 200 scientific works: on metabolism in infants, on their nutrition, milk science, on children's tbc, syphilis, vaccination, etc. In cooperation with A. Gottstein and L. Teleki, he published the "Handbook of Social Hygiene," and together with M. Pfaundler - the classic guide to children's diseases in 7 volumes ("Handbook of Pediatrics," 4th ed., Vol. I-IV, Berlin, 1931), translated into English, Italian, and Spanish.